beachbum

I onve had a college professor say that the meaning of the word Nazarath was "elsewhere" and the the origional meaning of christian was "rubbed with olive oil"> Anyone know the truth to either of these?

IvanK

Christian: Greek christos is a direct translation of Hebrew mosiach, Messiah, "anointed one." Generally people who were anointed were anointed with olive oil. But Christian itself would mean "follower of one anointed with olive oil" it seems to me.

No idea on Nazareth, sorry. I've seen some discussions suggesting Nazareth was not in existence at the time Jesus was supposed to be from there but nothing on the origin of the name.

Amos

Sounds right because Jesus was from elsewhere and a stranger in his homeland. For sure, the word Nazareth has a meaning as does Bethlehem (house of bread) as does Jerusalem (?) as do all the names used in the Gospels because of their metaphoric use. Follow through on the J from Joseph, through Jesus, John, and once again John at the cross who was the bosom buddy of Jesus and once again to Joseph returning for the body of Jesus nee Joseph.

-DM-

According to Thayer's Greek Definitions, Nazareth means "the guarded one.” That is the only meaning given.

The New American Standard Greek Dictionary and Strong's Greek Dictionary give no meanings.

All three say that the word is of uncertain origin.

--Don--

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-DM-

In spite of any claims to the contrary in the book of John itself, almost no biblical scholar today believes that John was an eyewitness to the historical Jesus.

--Don--

Amos

But Don, you should know by now that I don't care what scholars think, especially not biblical scholars who don't know by admitting to be scholars.

John was born in the netherworld of the subconscious mind. Was beheaded and later restored to be Christ. He was the Christ identity of Jesus set free under the name of Barabbas and hence he was at the foot of the cross where he was introduced to Mary as Her son. It is all metaphysics and took place within the mind of one man.

Toto

Does this mean that the Galilean town of Nazareth derives from that Greek word?

There has been speculation that Jesus was a member of a sect called Nazarenes, and that this was later misunderstood to make him a resident of Nazareth.

-DM-

Amos:

Sorry, but I don't normally read your posts, so no, I don't know what you care about and what you don't care about. The larger question, however, is why I should care what you care about or what you don't care about.

What few posts of yours that I did read, back some time ago, made almost no sense to me whatsoever. The same is true of the rest of this post of yours to which I am responding, which I did read because it quoted what I had said.

--Don--